Key result
Cancer is linked to significantly elevated cardiovascular risk, emphasizing the need for improved prevention strategies.
Why the study?
Patients with cancer have elevated cardiovascular risks, and as cancer incidence increases and mortality decreases, cardiovascular diseases in patients with a history of cancer are increasingly important.
This narrative review emphasizes the increasing importance of cardiovascular health in cancer patients and identifies key gaps in evidence for risk stratification and management.
Patients with cancer have elevated cardiovascular risks compared to those without cancer. As cancer incidence increases and cancer-related mortality decreases, cardiovascular diseases in patients with a history of cancer will become increasingly important. This in turn is reflected by the exponentially increasing amount of cardio-oncology research in recent years. This narrative review aims to summarize the key existing literature in several main areas of cardio-oncology, including the epidemiology, natural history, prevention, management, and determinants of the cardiovascular health of patients with cancer, and identify relevant gaps in evidence for further research.
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Chan et al. (2024) conducted a review in Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease. Patients with cancer face significantly elevated cardiovascular risks, emphasizing the need for improved risk stratification, prevention, and management strategies.
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